I've been playing around with Golden Eagle Flightprep (the free version) for a few weeks.
Is there a way, once you save a flight in this application (or in some other free application) to have it automatically feed it into your GPS as a route? Here's why I ask....you could easily plan a flight on the computer at home (like this sample flight from my home field down to Galveston) that includes flying over many private and public airstrips on your way. I REALLY like the idea of, with only a couple degrees deviation, of having a suitable landing area just off the nose at all times. When you really drill down into the map you can usually find a private grass strip every ten miles or so (in Texas, at least).
Plan B would be the 'nearest' button on the GPS, of course, but there is comfort for me in a plan that includes a landing spot just over the spinner every few miles.
Entering all these waypoints into the GPS by hand would be a typing nightmare. If I could have this software auto-feed the route into my Garmin 496 so I could just pull it up and engage the autopilot....well, that would be dreamy.
In the example below, all these deviations added five minutes to the flight - and most of the waypoints are private strips. Cheap insurance...
I also like the idea of planning little sightseeing 'tours' on the home computer and uploading them to the 496...then letting the autopilot do the driving.
Ideas? Does the software already do it and I just overlooked it?
b,
dr
Is there a way, once you save a flight in this application (or in some other free application) to have it automatically feed it into your GPS as a route? Here's why I ask....you could easily plan a flight on the computer at home (like this sample flight from my home field down to Galveston) that includes flying over many private and public airstrips on your way. I REALLY like the idea of, with only a couple degrees deviation, of having a suitable landing area just off the nose at all times. When you really drill down into the map you can usually find a private grass strip every ten miles or so (in Texas, at least).
Plan B would be the 'nearest' button on the GPS, of course, but there is comfort for me in a plan that includes a landing spot just over the spinner every few miles.
Entering all these waypoints into the GPS by hand would be a typing nightmare. If I could have this software auto-feed the route into my Garmin 496 so I could just pull it up and engage the autopilot....well, that would be dreamy.
In the example below, all these deviations added five minutes to the flight - and most of the waypoints are private strips. Cheap insurance...
I also like the idea of planning little sightseeing 'tours' on the home computer and uploading them to the 496...then letting the autopilot do the driving.
Ideas? Does the software already do it and I just overlooked it?
b,
dr
A 'tour' of area private runways followed by breakfast at Hicks.
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